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The Geodesic Direct Democratic Network Lesson Three - Modes
As homework, each person who wishes to learn this should write a glossary of the new terms and titles, with their meanings, from this Lesson. If the terms are understood, the whole system is pretty much easily understood.
Modes -Larger scales of problem solving
Modes are organizational sizes higher than a single I-Team. To the individual member, who participates in two adjacent I-Teams, the only real difference is that a single External Subject is the only subject considered by the I-Teams, although each I-Team the member is part of might well be considering different Mode Subjects or one might be in Normal Mode while the other is in a larger Mode.
The different Mode resolutions start with the Octa-Team (O-Team) level, where 6 I-Teams work on the same Mode Subject. The defined groupings are always made up of I-Teams, and the divisions are not flexible. Members who cross lines between O-Teams are called Exterior Links and may have scheduling differences between the rest of the members of one or both I-teams they link. This is the same for all Links between separate resolutions.
O-Teams
The I-Team is made up of 12 members, always, but in higher resolutions, the I-Teams form the O-Team, with 6 I-Teams with 42 members involved, 30 between the I-Teams completely within the O-Team, and 12 members with one I-Team within the O-Team and the adjacent I-Team they participate in another O-Team, the Exterior Links. [O-TEAM]
When an O-Team Mode Subject is accepted, it becomes the only Subject of every I-Team within it. Each I-Team self-educates about the subject, reading all sources of data as discussed in the On-going meeting. All data discovered which in some way relates to the Subject is read and recorded, including source, in the I-Team's archive and the General Archive, and is read by other I-Teams as it appears. In this way, all I-Teams will have access to the same data, pro or con or just relevant, and the database on that particular Subject will grow very quickly with so many members researching it, where ever they can find data. Opinion is relevant but must be indicated as being opinion and not source material, in the I-Team's archives as well as the General Archive. (See Lesson Five -The General Archive)
An O-Team Mode Subject is acted upon only when all the I-Teams vote to act upon it, which requires at least 6 members of each I-Team to vote Aye on that Subject. An O-Team Mode Subject can be dropped when 7 members or more of three separate I-Teams vote Aye on a specific proposition to drop it. This is one of the few times a majority can effect the decision. Remember, only those who vote Aye on a Subject can use their Geonet Account Donation to further action on that Subject, even in a higher Mode.
NOTE: It is understood that if only 6 out of 12 members vote Aye, then the other have voted Nay or something else, and this would not be a majority vote for or against something. But the Geonet is not an organization which attempts to force those who are against something to support it just because the majority support it. It is quite possible that a member may never support anything voted on, and that is their right. However, once they are members, they cannot ever get back the money donated to the Geonet, by nonprofit Law as well as the organization's rules. (See Lesson Four -Finances) So all individuals must realize that if they are members and are putting money into their Geonet account, that money cannot be returned to them and if they quit the organization, that money will be used to further the Geonet's efforts in specific ways listed in the Finances Lesson.
I-Groups
The next resolution is the Icosa-Group (I-Group), which is made up of 12 O-Teams. [Graphic] This resolution works the same as the O-Team level. This resolution has 180 Links, (each Link is 2 members,) or 360 members, within the participating O-Teams, 27 Links, (54 members,) within the I-Group, 12 Links, (24 members,) going to directly adjacent I-Groups, and 6 Links, (12 members,) connects to I-Groups not immediately adjacent to the I-Group. This makes the size of the I-Group 450 members, with 36 of those members being Exterior Links to adjacent or remote I-Groups. The numbers will seem strange because they are not directly additive, because the members connect 2 I-Teams rather than being a member of a single I-Team.
A subject can be dropped when 3 O-Teams in an I-Group vote to drop it. That means 3 I-Teams, (7 members or more in each I-Team,) in each of 3 O-Teams voted on a specific motion to drop it. A subject can be acted on when 6 or more members of every I-Team i n the I-Group voted to take an action. It is important to understand that the Geonet is not an emergency organization. It will move slowly at best, possibly taking years to do some really large, organization wide, action. This is necessary to make sure t he solutions are not expedient, the 9th deadly sin for any organization. It may be that the Geonet, as a whole, will at some point put together a Project to handle certain kinds of emergencies that require faster action. (See Lesson Six -Projects)
To reach this level, ideally at least three Cycles (a month and a half) have passed as the Mode Subject was researched and discussed and voted on at the I-Team level, the O-Team level, and then passed to the I-Group Level. A more realistic time will likel y be four or five Cycles, (2 to 2½ Months) This data gathered and discussed will be available in the General Archives, and available to all the I-Teams now involved in the Mode Subject.
The Subjects studied by any I-Team is posted at the beginning of the Cycle on the General Archive in a special database, and when the same problem is being considered somewhere else in the world, the two I-Teams can connect through the Internet or in any other way and swap data. When there are a lot of I-Teams working on the same problem, the same applies. However, any I-Team which can show that a large enough number of I-Teams are, or will eventually, consider the same problem, they can propose that the Subject be sent to the Mode resolution that would likely be the best size to handle the problem, and jump directly to that Mode, ideally in two to four Cycles . Some problems will likely actually become a Mode Subject for the entire Geonet, no matter what size it is at that time. Projects will likely be set up to find out more data on a Mode Subject and funded by the Geonet for that purpose. (See Lesson 6 -Projects)
O-Groups The O-Group has much the same geometric design as the O-Team, being made of 6 I-Groups in the same way the O-Team is made up of 6 I-Teams. [Graphic] The main difference is the Remote Links, which skip over adjacent I-Groups to link I-Groups farther away. The multiplicity of links is required to help the ratio of Internal Links to External Links, which goes down rapidly as the size of the resolution changes. There are a higher percentage of Links between each O-Team within a I-Group than between I-Groups in an O-Group, and as the resolutions grow, this ratio changes downward without some rectifying adjustment. The Remote Links will keep more data flowing between the different resolutions, preventing isolation. On the graphic, the yellow lines are Remote Links, and in the I-Node graphic, which is not fully done yet, you can see the Remote Links do not go to adjacent O-Groups, but end, which indicate they jump over the adjacent O-Group to link with t he O-Group on the other side. Although the Geonet as originally visualized has been in existence since 1984, this ratio problem is a recent change in design, and the data has not yet been calculated.
Scheduling Conflicts:
If a resolution larger than I-Team is already working on a Mode Subject, and there is a greater mode Subject proposed, then a Mode Request can be passed along with the existing Mode Subject to all the I-Teams in an O-Team or larger resolution, as long as the Mode Request Subject is for a Mode of higher resolution than the current Mode. So if an O-Team is working on a Mode Subject, and there is a request from another O-Team to form an I-Group, then that Mode Request must be passed to all the affected I-Teams in that O-Team. If the O-Team accepts the formation of the I-Group, then the Mode Subject is postponed until the larger resolution Mode Subject is considered and finished.
The Mode resolutions from here on, grow in Octa and Icosa scales, that is, groups of 6 for Octa, and groups of 12 for Icosa. The pattern just repeats itself as it grows. Teams, then Groups, then Nodes, then Assemblies, then whatever people decide to call the next resolution and the one after that, etc. (See Chart below)
I = Icosa (12) O=Octa (6) Click on size to see graphic Mode Resolutions Note: A Link has 2 Members linking the same 2 I-Teams Designation # of Members # of I-Teams # of Interior Links # of Exterior Links I-Team 12 1 0 6 O-Team 42 6 15 6 I-Group 450 72 207 18 O-Group 2640 432 1272 48 I-Node 5184 O-Node I-Assembly O-Assembly
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